Growing scandal of trump the ezra klein

The Growing Scandal of $TRUMP | The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show
 
May 28, 2025  The Ezra Klein Show
Steve Bannon famously talked about using “muzzle velocity” as a strategy: doing so much so quickly that you overwhelm the ability of the media to cover it. I think what the Trump family is doing with crypto is muzzle velocity for corruption.

What they’re doing isn’t necessarily illegal. It would be if these were official campaign donations; the sums involved are so large, and the buyers include foreign nationals. But the Trump family is making this money personally. And they’re doing it across so many different crypto ventures, it’s almost impossible to keep track.

So that’s what I wanted to do with this episode: try to track at least some of it.

The person I’ve enlisted to help me out is Zeke Faux. He’s the author of the fantastic book “Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall” and an investigative reporter at Bloomberg, where he’s been covering many of these strange Trump family crypto schemes.

This episode contains strong language.

Read the full transcript here: https://nytimes.com/2025/05/28/opinio...

0:00 Introduction
2:27 Crypto in Trump 1.0
11:24 How Trump learned to love crypto
21:32 World Liberty Financial and its connections
37:18 Memecoins and $Trump
48:32 Stablecoins and USD1
54:37 The big picture
1:03:29 Book recommendations

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Is the Sun Setting on America’s Financial Empire? | The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show
 May 2, 2025  The Ezra Klein Show
The U.S. dollar is the lingua franca of the global financial system. The fact that so much of the world relies on our currency has long been understood as our exorbitant privilege — the reason we have so much leverage in the global economy and are able to borrow at lower interest rates.

But the Trump administration has a much more complicated relationship with the dollar. It has come to see dollar dominance as a burden we bear on behalf of the rest of the world. But in its attempts to move away from dollar dominance, is the Trump administration on the verge of creating a financial crisis?

Kenneth Rogoff is a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and a professor of economics at Harvard University. He has a book coming out called “Our Dollar, Your Problem.” In this conversation he walks through the history of dollar dominance, why it’s been waning in recent years and what ripple effects the Trump administration’s policies might have.

0:00 Intro
2:27 The basics of dollar dominance
5:38 How the U.S. benefits
10:40 Effects on U.S. manufacturing
18:56 International perspectives
23:15 Trump’s threats to the system
32:00 Tariffs and the dollar
40:00 Can the damage be un-done?
48:55 Is a financial crisis on the horizon?
56:56 What could replace dollar dominance
1:01:14 Book recommendations

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Why Ezra Klein is So F***ing Angry (with Democrats)

Hasan Minhaj
 May 21, 2025  Hasan Minhaj Doesn't Know
Hasan sits down with superstar political podcaster Ezra Klein to talk about why he’s so angry, what Democrats need to change, and his new book “Abundance.”

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Co-Creator & Executive Producer: Hasan Minhaj
Co-Creator & Executive Producer: Prashanth Venkataramanujam
Executive Producer/Director: Tyler Babin
Executive Producer/Showrunner: Scott Vrooman
Cinematographer: Austin Morales
Producer: Kayla Feng
Associate Producer: Annie Fick
Editor: Zach Silberberg
Talent Coordinator: Tanya Somanader
Executive Assistant: Samuel Piland

0:00- Cold Open
0:32- Opening Monologue
1:56- Ezra Klein Cursing Montage
4:45- Importance of emotion in journalism
6:40- The Right making cruelty a meme
9:25- The Left f**ing up governance
13:30- Personality Transplants in the Republican Party
18:40- Well Meaning Red Tape
25:33- Abundance of the Factors of Production
27:28- Everything Bagel Liberalism
31:22- Psychologically Polarization of Political Parties
33:47- Breaking Rules vs. Breaking Laws
40:33- Ezra Klein’s Glow Up

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There Is a Liberal Answer to Elon Musk | The Ezra Klein Show

The Ezra Klein Show
Mar 9, 2025  The Ezra Klein Show
Right-wing populism thrives on scarcity. The answer is abundance. But a politics of abundance will work only if Democrats confront where their approach has failed.

This video essay is adapted from my forthcoming book, “Abundance,” which I wrote with Derek Thompson.